MP education dept holds workshop on yagnas, computer learning in consonance with dharma

From teaching how traditional Hindu yagnas (fire rituals) can purify air to drawing civil engineering lessons from the Ramayana, there are many ways to incorporate traditional Indian knowledge in modern education according to a workshop that ended Wednesday in Bhopal and which was organised by MP Government Higher Education Department with support of National Institute of Teachers Training and Research (NITTR).

- Shruti Tomar

For three days, 54 professors and assistant professors from government colleges across Madhya Pradesh assembled at the National Institute of Teachers Training and Research (NITTR) in Bhopal to participate in training sessions by experts from Vijnana Bharti and Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Siksha Sansthan, organisations affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayam-sewak Sangh. The Madhya Pradesh government has made Indian traditional knowledge a mandatory module for first-year undergraduate students across all streams from this academic year as part of the National Education Policy 2020.

The topics introduced include Tvasta (double helix of DNA) in biochemistry, Indian fermented food and beverages from the Vedic period in biotechnology, influence of Sanskrit on the English language, data handling, data organisation, and indexing retrieval in the Vedic period, and ethical computer learning according to dharma.